Together We Can Hold Strong

By Peter Harris

I wonder if you worry

About your mental health,

And if you feel sorry

That you can't see your wealth.

Do you go to sleep thinking

Maybe tonight will be the night,

Something will stop you breathing

And you'll surrender your life.

Maybe you feel you're only living

Because you're really quite scared

Of what it’ll do to the giving

Ones in your life, if you give in to what they feared.

No one wants to hurt their loved ones

To carve that kind of scar,

So even when the night weighs a thousand tons

You stay, because they are.

If you think and feel this way too,

And the dark feels endless and long,

You're not alone — I'm right there with you.

Together we can hold strong.

It isn’t a weakness to live for their sake,

To keep your heart beating because they still care.

Every reason that helps you not break

Is proof that your courage is fiercely there.

The battle you win when you choose not to go

Opens the door for more reasons to stay:

A laugh, or a kindness, a face that will glow,

The tiniest moments can pave the way.

And maybe, just maybe, the fight that we choose

Will echo in someone who’s struggling too.

They’ll see in our staying, they’ve more left to lose

And find one more reason to stay with us too.

By Peter Harris